Ian Gregoire's Blog, page 17

Giveaway: 25 Copies Of The Exercise Of Vital Powers

  My debut fantasy novel The Exercise Of Vital Powers is available now from Amazon, and to mark this momentous occasion I’ve decided to giveaway 25 copies of the ebook edition to you lucky readers. Aren’t I being really nice to you guys today? All you have to do for your chance to win, is […]

Cover Reveal: The Exercise Of Vital Powers

  I have good news people. The release of the Kindle edition of my debut fantasy novel, The Exercise Of Vital Powers, is imminent. In honour of this momentous occasion, I have decided to treat you all to a first look at the cover artwork, and provide you brief synopsis of the story. The book […]

A Brief Introduction To Your Future Favourite Debut Novel

  So, I’ve been sitting on the ebook edition of my novel for a couple of weeks, waiting for the completion of a front cover design I was pleased with. Now that the waiting is finally over, I am seriously contemplating having the book published sometime next week. I will probably make up my mind […]

Self-Publishing: First Choice Or Last Resort?

  Unless you have been living under a rock for the past decade, you can’t have failed to notice that the publishing industry has experienced significant changes during this period. The advent of the e-reader and, subsequently, the ebook market that online retailer, Amazon, was at the forefront of establishing has been a disruptive game […]

Is Failing To Plan, Planning To Fail?

  There are certain questions every fiction writer will ask themselves, sooner or later, about their craft. One such question will be a variation of, should you plan your story before writing it, or forgo the plan and just make up a story as go? It is a question I thought I had definitively answered […]

Discovering What Inspires My Creative Writing

  Although creating stories is something I have been doing for my own entertainment since early childhood, until recently I had never given any thought to what actually inspires the stories I tell. It was during the course of writing my first novel throughout most of 2016 that I first consciously came to realise that […]

Quote: If There’s A Book You Really Want To Read…

  The following quote, from Nobel Prize winning author, Toni Morrison, is one of my all time favourite inspirational quotes. It really encapsulates the primary motivation for my creative writing; the desire to write something that I simply have to read. It is also very pertinent as I have recently implemented this advice by completing […]